Tonight With Trevor McDonald...

shrek101

I do and they are brilliant on prices and just as good if not cheaper, problem is normally choice and limited product range.

lipidicman wrote:

Dont get me started on B&Q - support your local hardware store - if you are lucky enough to have one

amateur_saver

This is a borrower..... very very ickle......

Not our Martin at all... tee hee :money:

trafalgar_2

Munki wrote:

Perhaps it's the recommended retail prices that should be looked at. They are obviously so high in the first place, if Tescos and other stores are able to buy in bulk and offer such huge reductions off the RRP and STILL make money.


Munki.

now that would make interesting viewing.................is it really the manufacturers that come up with this price or are they required to hike it up to help the 'sale price'

It would be nice to be able to shop and buys everything at a realistic cost price .......all the time ,with a set realistic mark-up for profit


wouldn't that be novel:D

lipidicman

Civilisation would come to an end - tescos share prices would fall and our pensions would be dooooooomeeeed. Oh wait, they already are!

I thought RRPs had long been abolished. I used to work in the HiFi industry and the MRP or RRP was dropped due to legislation and it caused uproar as the industry felt it made transparent pricing less likely (It is hard to know how much a good cd player should cost, if the manufacturer wont tell you what it was aiming at and if competition isnt good then prices can rise, rather than fall. Also price competition drives the product quality down as the manufacturer is under pressure to use cheaper components to keep the margin up for its dealers and this isnt what you want if you want quality)

System

Whats a borrower look like?

Martin!
:beer:

I asked for that didnt i?

littlemissfrugal

i work for the mighty tesco and of course do most of my shopping there as after staff discount it works out cheaper ... but not always i still shop around and visit the other s/markets and take advantage of their offers - just as i think we all should - shop around get the best deal we are the winners in this at least for now .. till we only have supermarkets left to shop in ... its not just tesco they're all at it

lipidicman

mrapps wrote:

in general my opinion of TwTMcD is that its often like a TV version of the Daily Mail.

I couldnt agree more with this, Sir Trevor could lend his name to something far better

Smiley_Mum

Since the showing of the Tonight programme informing us of Tescos huge profits I have shopped elsewhere. Bought my meat at the local butchers and everything else at the corner shop or Lidls. I do have a Tesco credit card, along with many others which I could use but... I have saved money too. I have made home made treats for the kids rather than buying snacks for them which they prefer. I passed through the Tesco I normally use yesterday and today around 9.15am and normally it would be buzzing with people and guess what... it was extremely quiet, a lot of the checkout operators were sitting looking at one another with not a lot to do. I think the local Lidls is going to be busier from now on.

littlemissfrugal

i know i'm slightly biased but don't you think with whats just happened to Rover a once great british company we maybe ought to applaud Tesco being successful after all we don't get much else right do we! And by the way smiley mum rebel against tesco if you must but question the quality of the products you buy and remember its a foreign company.

bridiej

Smiley_Mum wrote:

Since the showing of the Tonight programme informing us of Tescos huge profits I have shopped elsewhere. Bought my meat at the local butchers and everything else at the corner shop or Lidls. I do have a Tesco credit card, along with many others which I could use but... I have saved money too. I have made home made treats for the kids rather than buying snacks for them which they prefer. I passed through the Tesco I normally use yesterday and today around 9.15am and normally it would be buzzing with people and guess what... it was extremely quiet, a lot of the checkout operators were sitting looking at one another with not a lot to do. I think the local Lidls is going to be busier from now on.

We tend to do our weekly shop at Aldi for all the basics, farm shop for fruit and veg and works out much cheaper than Tesco (normally Tesco £45 a week, Aldi+farm shop £30 per week tops).

BUT lately I have had to go to Tesco as I've been doing the GI diet and Aldi dont stock quite a few of the low fat things I've got to stick to.....